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Latin State Mottos
Given the motto in latin, name the state and give translation
Question | Answer |
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Audemus jura nostra defendere | Alabama / We dare defend our rights |
Ditat Deus | Arizona / God Enriches |
Regnat populus | Arkansas / The people rule |
Nil sine numine | Colorado / Nothing without providence |
Qui transtulit sustinet | Connecticut / He who transplanted, sustains |
Justitia Omnibus | District of Columbia / Justice for All |
Esto perpetua | Idaho / Let it be perpetual |
Ad astra per aspera | Kansas / To the stars through difficulties |
Deo gratiam habeamus | Kentucky / Let us be grateful to God |
Dirigo | Maine / I lead |
Fatti maschii, parole femine | Maryland / Manly deeds, womanly words |
Ense petit placidam sub libertate quietem | Massachusetts / By the sword we seek peace, but peach only under liberty |
Si quaeris peninsulam amoenam circumspice | Michigan / If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look around you |
Virtute et armis | Mississippi / By valor and arms |
Salus populi suprema lex esto | Missouri / Let the welfare of the people be the supreme law |
Crescit eundo | New Mexico / It grows as it goes |
Excelsior | New York / Ever upward |
Esse quam Videri | North Carolina / To be, rather than to seem |
Labor omnia vincit | Oklahoma / Labor conquers all things |
Alis volat propriis | Oregon / She flies with her own wings |
Joannes est nomen ejus | Puerto Rico / John is his name |
Dum spiro spero (and) Animis opibusque parati | South Carolina / While I breathe, I hope (and)Ready in soul and resource |
Sic semper tyrannis | Virginia / Thus always to tyrants |
Montani semper liberi | West Virginia / Mountaineers are always free |